Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study provides unique information about the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), which is the Department of the Army's corporate laboratory, strategically placed within the Army Materiel Command (AMC), an institutional Army Command (ACOM).

In the United States, the U.S. Army has a long history of innovation, from the exploits of the Lewis and Clark Expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the medical and engineering advances associated with the construction of the Panama Canal begun at its end.